Miniaturing as Emendation: I–II Cnut in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 383

Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 383 comprises an early twelfth-century collection of Anglo-Saxon law-codes and related texts, including a copy of Cnut’s law-code commonly known as I-II Cnut. This article demonstrates how the supply of red, pen-work initials by the miniator was used to emend the mise-en-page as originally anticipated by the main scribal hand, shows developments in the production methodology throughout the copying and decoration, illuminates a point where the scribe and miniator communicated with each other, and shows how the production and emendation of I-II Cnut were incorporated into the broader contexts of the manuscript and its mise-en-page.